Static Electricity = KILLER BIRD!

[KimberlyAnn]

It's a very weird weather day today. The kind that make you feel like your whole body ran through the dryer without a dryer sheet.

Anyway, I shocked my bird. I didn't mean to! And it was not a huge shock. I went to clip a sugar snap pea to her cage and she touched my hand. I felt it, she felt it and there was what seemed like a very long pause.

Then she went COMPLETELY MAD! Khaledra used the phrase "Shuttlecock with feet" the other day and now I find that hallarious instead of just amusing because I have now experienced this phenomenon to the fullest extent.

She charged my hand with tail spread, wings open, beak letting out this sound that I can only describe as the war cry of something scary you would not want to meet outside in your back yard in the dark.

She charged so fast, it didn't register it happened until she was biting me over and over HARD! Not enough to break skin and I don't have marks now...but she must have bit me at least 10 times!

I stayed calm and used my other hand to cup her body so she would not fall in the madness and bought her up to face level...kinda. I wanted to keep my sight. Lol

This calmed her down and she looked at me like, Oh you saved me! Thank God you saved me!" I rubbed her cheeks and told her it was ok and she leaned back in my hand and relaxed.

I learned three lessons tonight...

1) Always touch the cage on high static days before there is a possibility she might touch me or before I pick her up.

2) I can totally keep my cool during an attack.

3) Birds can go from zero to sixty in 1 second. Lol

Phew...hope that never happens again! Lol

[marie83]

Poor bird lol. I dont think i've ever shocked any of mine but I do my partner reguarly and my car gets me alot in return.

I dont think I'm ever going to get over the phrase of our colourful "shuttlecocks with legs" its going to amuse me forever... The description is spot on

[KimberlyAnn]

We so need to catch it on video someday! Lol

[hlasdf]

Haha, I remember a couple days ago Daisy got shocked by our remote control. She jumped back and stared at it for a bit before moving onto something else to chew

[Strawfrawg]

KimberlyAnn...Awwww! I bet that was scary for her. I wonder what that feels like to a little creature with hollow bones. Glad she didn't do any real damage in her attack. Marvin has yet to freak out on me for any reason and I can only wonder when it's going to be and what will cause it...so far he's bizarrely unflappable.

hlasdf...I was wondering if a TV remote could deliver a shock. Marvin is obsessed with the remote. I used to flip it over, button-side down, but he is a strong little guy and has figured out how to flip it over. It would be interesting to know if Daisy stays clear of the remmote from now on....

[KimberlyAnn]

Oh yeah, I am sure it scared her a lot! Both of us in fact! Lol It must feel so strange to them!